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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2637260, member: 71723&quot;]There are such things as &quot;11 centers&quot;, but this is not one. Wrong planchet or denomination overstrikes can only happen when smaller pieces end up restruck on a larger coin&#039;s press, and that LAST strike is the predominant one. A cent is larger than a dime (not by a whole bunch, but it is) so what you&#039;re suggesting here is a dime planchet somehow got struck in a cent press and THEN somehow got back to the dime line and got re-restruck as the dime it was always meant to be. Pretty convoluted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Far more likely is that this dime spent some time in earth and was recovered by someone with a metal detector who cleaned it up and whatever chemical they used to cut the grime got on the fingers where the marks behind Roosevelt&#039;s head grew. For all we know, the dime was pressed up against a cent while buried, and since cents of that vintage are VERY chemically reactive (copper plated zinc), all sorts of design elements could get etched.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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